13th Finnish Artificial Intelligence Conference (STeP 2008)

STeP 2008 is the 13th Finnish Artificial Intelligence Conference and will be held in the Helsinki University of Technology and Nokia Research Center, Finland, on August 20-22. The first day consists of conference talks, and the second and third day are for the Nokia Workshop on Machine Consciousness.

The conference will be co-organized by the Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society and by the Helsinki University of Technology.

The planned program of the conference is as follows:

Wednesday, 20.8.2008

Conference sessions at Helsinki University of Technology

Detailed program to be announced. See Call for Papers (CFP)!

Thursday, 21.8. 2008

Nokia Workshop on Machine Consciousness 2008 at Nokia Research Center.

9:00

Welcome

9:15

Introductory speech by Prof. Igor Aleksander

10:00

Coffee break

Session 1. Consciousness Models

10:30

Antonio Chella: Robotanic: an externalist outlook of a robot architecture